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Sarcasm is a linguistic phenomenon indicating a discrepancy between literal meanings and implied intentions. Due to its sophisticated nature, it is usually challenging to be detected from the text itself. As a result, multi-modal sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

We present a transformer-based sarcasm detection model that accounts for the context from the entire conversation thread for more robust predictions. Our model uses deep transformer layers to perform multi-head attentions among the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xiangjue Dong , Changmao Li , Jinho D. Choi

Sarcasm is a peculiar form of sentiment expression, where the surface sentiment differs from the implied sentiment. The detection of sarcasm in social media platforms has been applied in the past mainly to textual utterances where lexical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Rossano Schifanella , Paloma de Juan , Joel Tetreault , Liangliang Cao

A positive phrase or a sentence with an underlying negative motive is usually defined as sarcasm that is widely used in today's social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. In recent times active users in social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Ramisa Anan , Tasnim Sakib Apon , Zeba Tahsin Hossain , Elizabeth Antora Modhu , Sudipta Mondal , MD. Golam Rabiul Alam

Sarcasm is common in online discussions, yet difficult for machines to identify because the intended meaning often contradicts the literal wording. In this work, I study sarcasm detection using only classical machine learning methods and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Subrata Karmaker

Computational models for sarcasm detection have often relied on the content of utterances in isolation. However, speaker's sarcastic intent is not always obvious without additional context. Focusing on social media discussions, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Debanjan Ghosh , Alexander Richard Fabbri , Smaranda Muresan

With the increased use of social media platforms by people across the world, many new interesting NLP problems have come into existence. One such being the detection of sarcasm in the social media texts. We present a corpus of tweets for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Akshita Aggarwal , Anshul Wadhawan , Anshima Chaudhary , Kavita Maurya

Sarcasm detection is a binary classification task that aims to determine whether a given utterance is sarcastic. Over the past decade, sarcasm detection has evolved from classical pattern recognition to deep learning approaches, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Liming Zhou , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaodong Wang

Sarcasm, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is the use of words by someone who means the opposite of what he is trying to say. In the field of sentimental analysis of Natural Language Processing, the ability to correctly identify sarcasm is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Juliann Zhou

The pervasive use of the Internet and social media introduces significant challenges to automated sentiment analysis, particularly for sarcastic expressions in user-generated content. Sarcasm conveys negative emotions through ostensibly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhenkai Qin , Qining Luo , Xunyi Nong

Sarcasm detection is the task of identifying irony containing utterances in sentiment-bearing text. However, the figurative and creative nature of sarcasm poses a great challenge for affective computing systems performing sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hamed Yaghoobian , Hamid R. Arabnia , Khaled Rasheed

Since their inception, transformer-based language models have led to impressive performance gains across multiple natural language processing tasks. For Arabic, the current state-of-the-art results on most datasets are achieved by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Amey Hengle , Atharva Kshirsagar , Shaily Desai , Manisha Marathe

Sarcasm detection, with its figurative nature, poses unique challenges for affective systems designed to perform sentiment analysis. While these systems typically perform well at identifying direct expressions of emotion, they struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ximing Wen , Rezvaneh Rezapour

Sarcasm is a rhetorical device that is used to convey the opposite of the literal meaning of an utterance. Sarcasm is widely used on social media and other forms of computer-mediated communication motivating the use of computational models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shafkat Farabi , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Diptesh Kanojia , Yu Kong , Marcos Zampieri

The existence of multiple datasets for sarcasm detection prompts us to apply transfer learning to exploit their commonality. The adversarial neural transfer (ANT) framework utilizes multiple loss terms that encourage the source-domain and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xu Guo , Boyang Li , Han Yu , Chunyan Miao

Automatic sarcasm detection is the task of predicting sarcasm in text. This is a crucial step to sentiment analysis, considering prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing text. Beginning with an approach that used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Aditya Joshi , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark James Carman

Sarcasm is a form of figurative language where the intended meaning of a sentence differs from its literal meaning. This poses a serious challenge to several Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Sentiment Analysis, Opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Abdellah El Mekki , Kabil Essefar , Abderrahman Skiredj , Ismail Berrada

Sentiment analysis becomes an essential part of every social network, as it enables decision-makers to know more about users' opinions in almost all life aspects. Despite its importance, there are multiple issues it encounters like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Abdelrahman Kaseb , Mona Farouk

Target-specific stance detection on social media, which aims at classifying a textual data instance such as a post or a comment into a stance class of a target issue, has become an emerging opinion mining paradigm of importance. An example…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yupeng Li , Haorui He , Shaonan Wang , Francis C. M. Lau , Yunya Song

Automatic sarcasm detection is a growing field in computer science. Short text messages are increasingly used for communication, especially over social media platforms such as Twitter. Due to insufficient or missing context, unidentified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Bleau Moores , Vijay Mago